The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-05-30
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TIE LESSONS ron THE LlvINd

THE LESSONS FOR THE LlvIS
From the Lives and Death Of Those WI
fsll that tbs uaion Might suryivo-An
Eloquent Sermon By Rev. O, f. mi. I;
Last Evening -aemorlal Day.
The local celebration Of Memorial Ds
promises to be much more general an
imposing this year THAI ever before. Tb
, day will be observed as holiday all owe
town, the banks, public offices and mot
Of tho private basiuess 4 houses beln
closed, and Sunday hours will bo observe
at the postollce, 4
The formal exercises will be as follows
lJ.W. Holiday Post and Ladies' Relic
Corps will have charge Of Mt. Wood, Pc
ninsular, Greenwood, Mt. Calvary an,
Stone Church cemeteries. Details will b,
sent to each, where the beautiful memor
iAl services OF the Grand Army OF the Re
public will BIZ held, together with such hlis, az
erclses as the comrades composing this
different details may arrange for.
| Comrade J. W. Robb will have charr,
OF Mt. Wood, Comrsde E |. Robertson n
tho Peninsular, Comrads J. M, Richard,
at Greenwood and Mt. Calvary, and Com
rade W. S. Meek ut tho Stone Church.
Those comrades aud laden going tc
Greenwood und Mt. Calvary, wifi 90 oui
on the o o'clock motor. 4, - eN' ,'
E. W. Stephens Post will meet at their
headquarters at s o'clock sharp and
headed by,a drum corps, will march aa
follows: Up Jacob to Thirty.third, down
Thirty.third 10 Cnaplino, up Chapline In
Twenty.fourth, up Twenty.fourth 10 foot
OF hill in front OF Red Mems cemetery
Here tho column will halt, while a detail
will decorate the graves OF four comrades
buried there. The column will then move
by Twenty.lourth, Eofl and Twenty.nintb
streets to Mt. Zion cemetery where the G.
a. X. memorial services will be performed,
after which the graves OF all noldiers viii
be strewu with iloSers. The post will
then return In Il body to headquarters.
1t will be under the command OF Post
Commander Joseph s. Arkle. =
All persons having howers to donate are
again urged to leave them at the places
already designated before 8 O'Clock ihis
morning, as they will be collected at thai
time. - = - .'' -
Both the city posts of tho G. A, F,
marched as body last night to the Chan.
line Street NJ. L. church, where Rev.
George E. Hite preached an eloquent and
appropriate sermon, ,asynopsis Of which fol.
lows: - :,
VOICES FROM THE DEAD.
His text wss:
By faith Abel offered unto God moro crcc,Ier,
sacIitce Than CAIN, by which he obtained wltue.,
That hewus righteous, God tesiifying Of his gitt:
and by 1t he, being dead, yet speaketh.-HtG. Il, l.
In grateful and loving remembrance we
meet tonight, my friends, to weave one
more chsplet for the brave Of our patriotic
dead, 10 lay one more garland on the
graves OF the brave men who lost their
lives in battle for the preservation Of the
Union; men "who counted not their lives
dear unto Themselves" when the Nations
life was in dsngsr. have been asked by
the equally brave men who have survived
the perilH OF war and the vicissitudes of
time as we'll, to speak some suitable words,
to give some suitable expression TO The
feeling OF respect and love they still cher.
ish Tor their departed comrades. and
which We sill in common entertain for the
memory Of tho men who died in defense
oil our common country. 4N
It is very proper and right that com.
rades, compstriots and fellow citizsss ns.
semblo in the Christian churches through.
out the land to commemorate in solemn
religious Bervice-in prayer, cong and ser.
mon, the manly virtues, the vslurous deeds
OF the martyrs OF union aud freedom II
gives the sanction OF the church of God to
the cauBe for which they diei. It was a
righteous cause. No army was ever mar.
shaled for the defense OF q juster csrlse, or
defended that cause with .randsr cour.
age. Had the csusa besn other than
worthy, such gathering and SUCH service
as this would be impatslble. II is also an
expression OF the Natiou's faith in the
grand verities OF the Christian religion.
| AGoDLr WAR.
Thank God! our Nation ia not an inf.
del nation. Stamped upon her coin and em.
blakoned OIL her banners is the motto. "In
God wo trust And this WIS the motto
OF her army. The Bible was nsvsr sbsent
from any battlefield. Men went into bat.
tic with prayer on their lips. 1t yas nm
unwavering faith in the experimenting
presence md overseeing power Of God
that sustained the Nstion'a heart in the
dark days OF the rebellion. She of re.
peated to herself the words, Clouds and
darkness are round about Him, but right
eousness and truth are the habitation of
His ihroEe." The voice OF prayer was
never client during those four dreadiul
years. The ministers in the pulpit, the
sEed sire at the family altar, the snxions
mother in he. c!oset and even the little
children at their mothers knoe, never forro.
TO pray Tor the success OF our artns. Thpgs
prayers we're sweet smelling incense in
the nostrils OF God. We felt that orr
Gauss was righteous and that the righteous
God would fight our battle for US.
Meeting as we do hero tonight, wo are
commemotsting in the most solemn and
sScred htHnnar kHown to mortRt man this
costly sacrifice male by the noble men
"Wno, sleep the sleep tha. knows no waking,
| And drchin Of battle Held nU more
| The line oi thought to which call at.
tentlon relates 10 the last clause OF ,he
verse read for text: "Being dead, vet
epeaketh."
The thought embodied hero is this:
There is sense in which death cannot
silence tho voice Of the departed. A sense
in which those that arc dead still live,
"being dead, y0t spuaketh."
Men live in the influence which their
words, thoughts and purposes sci in opera.
ton tnougand ages efter death hss
palsied the throhbing heGrt. "No man
liveth unto himself and no man dieth
unto himsali." None live without exert.
ing an influence upon others. We cannot
limit our influence to the BARROW circle Of
self. And this influence will be transmit.
ted from An individual to another and
from one generation to another until TIM
latest hour Of time. Tho natural world
furnishes many analogics Of th!s doctrine.
Youder chip with iron prov In her swiit